A treatise of original sin ... proving that it is

2. In this heart that is said to be evil, which we would think is not capable of sin, at least of very little, the thoughts, not only the affections, or the will, the appetitive parts of the soul, but the sublime and apprehensive.

2. In this heart that is said to be evil, which we would think is not capable of sinne, at least of very little, the thoughts, not onely the affections, or the will, the appetitive parts of the soul, but the sublime and apprehensive.

3. He doth not only say the thoughts, but the imagination, the very first rising and framing of them: It is a Metaphor from the Potter who doth frame his vessels upon a wheel in what shape he pleaseth: Thus the heart of man is continually shaping and effigiating some thoughts or other: Now these are not only sinful when formed, and it may be consented unto, but the very first fashioning of them, even as they rise immediately from the heart are sinful: If we explain it as others do, who observe this word signifieth to frame a thing with curious art and industry, then it aggravateth likewise, informing of us, that those thoughts which are polished by us in the most accurate manner they are altogether evil.

3. He doth not only say the thoughts, but the imagination, the very first rising and framing of them: It is a Metaphor from the Potter who doth frame his vessels upon a wheel in what shape he pleaseth: Thus the heart of man is continually shaping and effigiating some thoughts or other: Now these are not onely sinfull when formed, and it may be consented unto, but the very first fashioning of them, even as they rise immediately from the heart are sinfull: If we explain it as others do, who observe this word signifieth to frame a thing with curious art and industry, then it aggravateth likewise, informing of us, that those thoughts which are polished by us in the most accurate manner they are altogether evil.